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Capitol Hill, get to know your artful new neighbor at grand opening of STG at Kerry Hall

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By Domenic Strazzabosco

A year after the $6 million deal to add the historic Capitol Hill performance space to the family of Seattle venues including the Paramount, the Moore, and the Neptune, STG at Kerry Hall is holding a grand opening party this weekend.

The free Saturday, November 15th event will celebrate the Seattle Theater Group’s new addition. It’s an excellent opportunity for neighbors to stop through to see how the new life for the diverse, artistic space is taking shape.

“Kerry Hall is starting to come to life,” said Marisol Sanchez Best, STG’s Director of Education & Community Engagement. “Now, the big job is to let everyone know the building is available for them to come and utilize it as a creative space.”

STG put the E Roy just off northern Broadway building and studios into motion almost immediately after purchasing the 104-year-old property as Cornish College of the Arts severed its final ties to the neighborhood.

The move preserved the historic building Nellie Cornish once called home for a new generation of Seattle artists while giving STG a home for rehearsals and its educational programs as well as opportunities for smaller performance spaces.

STG’s success in Kerry Hall could be a hopeful good sign for another historic Capitol Hill venue. CHS reported here on Seattle Central’s search for new partners to put E Pine’s Egyptian Theater back in the movie business after SIFF’s exit from Capitol Hill.

Saturday at Kerry Hall, after a ribbon-cutting to kick off the event, attendees will be welcomed to walk through the historic building and observe or participate in the many activities and workshops planned while also enjoying a slate of performances. There will be a food truck as well. Continue reading →

Mexican Consulate invites you to a Capitol Hill Dia de Muertos celebration

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With the annual Broadway Hilloween kids carnival lost to post-pandemic challenges, there will be a new family-friendly gathering to celebrate the spirit of the season on Capitol Hill.

Saturday, Harvard Ave’s Consulate of Mexico in Seattle is throwing a party with its neighbors at STG Kerry Hall:

Dia de Muertos
Saturday Nov. 1, 2025

Kerry Hall | 3pm – 5pm | All Ages

Each year, Día de Muertos invites us to honor our beloved who have passed, celebrate traditions, and embrace the beauty of celebrating death through life.
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‘It’s crazy out there’ — In challenging times, Capitol Hill restaurant Cook Weaver shifting to more proletariat menu

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Food is political. Capitol Hill’s Cook Weaver is making a shift to give the people what they want — and what they need:

There is no way to say how sorry we are for everyone who is being harmed and targeted by this administration. We know that this moment requires a response at all levels: the personal, the communal, the political. For our part, we want to nourish our community, bring people together for joy, pleasure, and rejuvenation, and celebrate the culinary context of the Pacific Northwest. So, we are making a change.

Next week, the E Roy restaurant just off North Broadway is making changes it says will focus on a more affordable, more flexible menu, “so that we can serve more people and meet our community at this moment.”

“In this iteration we will offer a place to have a few dishes with wine. A cocktail with friends.
Or a full dinner,” Cook Weaver’s announcement of its new “neo-bistro format” reads. “And, we will continue to offer Chef Zac’s curated tasting menu for our guests who desire that expansive culinary experience.” Continue reading →

The self-pour taps will reopen as Nomadic Wine Dispensary begins new journey on North Broadway

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Rapport’s wine taps will not rest


 

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Neighbors and regulars of a popular nearby hangout that suddenly went dark to start the year on North Broadway are jumping into the wine business and reviving the space.

Nomadic Wine Dispensary will open soon in the former home of “self-pour” wine bar Rapport. Owners and first-time hospitality entrepreneurs Bonnie Donovan and Tim Sale say they weren’t looking to become part of Capitol Hill’s food and drink economy but could not bear to see the comfortable cafe space go empty. Continue reading →

Capitol Hill ‘self-pour’ wine bar Rapport closed ‘indefinitely’

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“Self-pour” wine bar Rapport has closed indefinitely on Capitol Hill as people involved in the business say they are seeking options to reopen the E Roy venue that carved a popular hangout out of a former Starbucks concept cafe on North Broadway.

A person with knowledge of the closure said the shutdown was due to a personal family decision with the ownership and that there were hopes of possibly working out a new deal for the cafe and wine bar’s lease.

Rapport’s last night of business was December 29th. Continue reading →

The French Guys bakery shop starts second year on Capitol Hill with growth, new sweets, and, yes, Pride croissants

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The French Guys bakery shop is beginning its second year on Capitol Hill with a new baking facility, new menu, and Pride croissants available every weekend at the E Roy counter and cafe.

Making room for the right mix of fresh daily offerings has been part of the learning that has taken place over the first year of business for The French Guys in a brick and mortar location on Capitol Hill after growing as Seattle’s first mobile French bakery.

“The store is tiny and there is not a lot of space so we need to be creative for that, Thibault Beaugende said.

Beaugende also says The French Guys still love their E Roy home in the historic Loveless Building.

“The building speaks for itself,” Beaugende says. “It’s really rare to find in Seattle… the European charm.”

The Loveless will turn 100 next year but The French Guys shop is now one year old — and counting. The second year of business comes with major growth for The French Guys as owners Beaugende and Renaud Lacipiere have moved into a larger, much improved new baking facility. The new space brings new opportunities to grow their baked creations they continue to deliver to cafes and restaurants, as well as supplying its popular presence at Seattle farmers markets and the Capitol Hill bakery shop. Continue reading →

Save Kerry Hall? Students stage sit-in, call for arts, music, and dance to be preserved as buyers eye historic property for housing and development

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Monday, Cornish College of the Arts students gathered along E Roy on Capitol Hill for a sit-in at Kerry Hall. Their hope is to save the historic building — and keep the 103-year-old studio and performance hall as a center for arts and learning on Capitol Hill.

There is also a Save Kerry Hall group formed with hopes of asking Cornish to reconsider the decision — or help shape the old building’s future by finding a buyer dedicated to continuing its role in the city’s arts scene.

“Most of us feel that the Cornish school should not be sold and it could be part of a vision of Cornish in other ways on Capitol Hill, so [there’s] this sort of long standing threat and feeling of insecurity for many of us as far as the future of Kerry Hall,” Elizabeth Jane Darrow, a former Cornish faculty member who has been helping organize efforts to save the building, tells CHS.

CHS reported here as Kerry Hall hit the Capitol Hill real estate market in April. At the time of Cornish’s announcement that it was finally preparing to sever its final ties to its birth neighborhood and fully move its campus to South Lake Union, the arts school did not include a price for the E Roy property and three-story building just off Broadway within the Harvard-Belmont Landmark District. Its broker is now awaiting offers.

Cornish students staged the sit-in at Kerry Hall on Monday to raise awareness about the pending sale. The sit-in plan included improvisational dances by Cornish graduate Sylvia Schatz-Allison and an opportunity for students past and present to write goodbye letters to the building.

“The decision to divest from Kerry Hall is a strategic one, so that we can focus on our energies on teaching and learning,” James Falzone, academic dean and professor of music at Cornish told CHS about the planned sale. Continue reading →

Kerry Hall hits the market as Cornish College of the Arts says goodbye to Capitol Hill

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The Cornish College of the Arts is ready to sever its final connection after more than a century of dance and music education on Capitol Hill.

Kerry Hall, the three-story studio and performance hall at E Roy and Broadway where Nellie Cornish called home at the time of the school’s 1914 founding and part of the school for more than 100 years, is now for sale.

“This is an exciting moment for Cornish College of the Arts,” Emily Parkhurst, chair of the board of trustees, said in a statement. “The decision to sell Kerry Hall completes the Board’s plan to unify the campus in South Lake Union, first outlined in 2007.”

CHS reported here in 2021 on preparations for the property sale as Cornish sought to solidify its growing presence in South Lake Union.

The announcement did not include a price tag for the property. Cornish says proceeds from the sale will be “reinvested into Cornish’s existing facilities and operations, allowing the college to continue to grow.” The school says its enrollment is expected to exceed 530 students in the 2024/2025 school year. Continue reading →

Behind the Capitol Hill curtains at a ‘macabre Halloween cocktail party,’ local theater makers and ‘tiny moments to scare the partygoers’

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You can look at the return of the Haunted Soiree “macabre Halloween cocktail party” to Capitol Hill as the return of a soul-stealing zombie business that haunts the neighborhood sucking dollars from unsuspecting tourists and filling them with watered down cocktails.

Afterall, Capitol Hill does Hilloween just fine on its own. Bars and restaurants up and down Broadway and across Pike and Pine look forward to the weekends around the holiday for almost Pride-levels of business.

It is also true that the concept is part of a nationwide production company’s ventures that swoops onto Capitol Hill once a year to cash in on Hilloween enthusiasm.

But you’ll be missing most of the fun. And some of the cocktails are actually good.

“I’m a teaching artist and I heard about Haunted Soiree through some friends,” cast member Hannah Votel said. “I love the tiny moments to scare the partygoers, luring them in with a false sense of insecurity. You can tell they like to be messed with.” Continue reading →

Joining Seattle’s seasonal run of scarehouses and fright fests, a Haunted Soiree returns for another Hilloween on E Roy

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The crowds are a little smaller and the hype down a level or two as a seasonal Halloween cocktail “experience” has returned for a second season at Capitol Hill’s DAR Rainier Chapter House

Re-branded as a Haunted Soiree production, this year’s The Volkov Possession continues through Halloween in the E Roy Mansion:

This 21+ immersive experience is part theatrical production, combined with an old-school variety show, dressed up as an upscale cocktail party, inside a historically haunted venue. It’s a night of eerie elegance, featuring themed mini-cocktails, extravagant entertainment, music, macabre magic, surreal specters, and interactive guest experiences.

While many reviews of last year’s visit described an overhyped, oversold experience, the show is still drawing Halloween-happy patrons. Ticket prices range from $64 to $95 depending on how many “miniature craft cocktails” and assorted other upgrades you want.

Unlike other pop-up experiences that have visited the neighborhood, the Haunted Soiree adds a new venue to the area’s October nightlife offerings. Continue reading →